Writing from the lobby of the Flamingo Hotel in Tuscon, Arizona. Still on tour and completely cracked out as fuck. I've been having a hard time keeping up on anything interweb-related because the driving/unloading/jamming/packing up/driving schedule has been more rigorous the past few weeks. Large patches of experiences and photographic evidence are missing from the blogosphere, but then it's important to remember that blogs aren't lives and teeth aren't bytes. I have been getting large swaths of inspiration everywhere along the way.
Hung out with Jae and Shawn in Iowa City and experienced the now legendary/fabled vegan waffle with tofu scramble cooked into the batter. Even under a harsh cold and endless coughing, I recognized it's unthinkable deliciousness.
In New Orleans we played at Quintron & Ms. Pussycat's joint The Spellcaster's Lodge. Fucking amazing good vibes and crazy intensity. I hadn't been thru New Orleans for years, and certainly not post-Katrina. It's unlike anywhere, in so many different directions and all of them amazing. The next day most of the crew went by Nothin But Fire Records and loaded up on Bounce and N.O. Hip Hop mixtapes, and I've been listening to almost nothing but ever since. It's fucking bonkers. The whole time in Louisiana. I still don't have words for it. Just total inspiration.
In Lafayette I figured out how to overdub with my hand-held digital recorder and made this weird little song in Rachel's living room.
City Center "Isn't Always"
Texas was a blast, as usual, and even not in deep South By Southwest damage, Austin was still kinda nutty. Hung out with my beloved Esme, and we woke up super early to meet a borderline still-drunk/almost-hungover Sarah who gave me a haircut and sent me off to Denton to dive into the depths of exhaustion even further. Since then I've been in the van drawing pictures, thinking about bedrooms and looking inward to total acceptance and the summer of lyfe that we're moving towards.
There's a ton of City Center stuff coming up this summer and fall. More than I really even imagined. All 100 of the LP's we had to sell are now spoken for, but we'll have info up soon for how to order CDs. Apart from that there's about 99 new announcements of excitement on the horizon, but they'll all have to wait until I get back to Michigan and maybe even after the Gories reunion show. In the meantime, here's a few other songs. This one I've been working on for a while and who knows what it's for/about...
And in cleaning up my hard-drive, I found this abandoned jam from this time last year, obviously deep into the slums of Brooklyn humidity listening to too much shoegaze and feeling lonely as fuck... enjoy!
City Center "Faceless Friends"
Ahahaha look at this dog he is chillin the most! Some guy was driving him around in that thing!
